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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Oct 26, 1904

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 30, No. 42.

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ALBERTA, N. W. T.

By Henry Block

THE first camp-meeting for this territory was held at Leduc, July 12-17, and was indeed a blessed occasion. This field had only two workers—Brother J. W. Boynton for the English, and the writer for the Germans; so the Lord sent Brother A. C. Anderson for the Scandinavian work. Brother R. A. Underwood, president of the Northern Union Conference, and Brother C. J. Kunkel were also present at the meeting. Different nationalities were in attendance, and some of them expressed themselves as Peter did on the Mount of Transfiguration, "Lord, it is good for us to be here." At the close of the meeting four candidates were baptized, the first fruit of this occasion.
On the 1st of August I took the train south to Calgary, where I had labored before. The Lord still works in the hearts of the people there. August 21 was set as the date for baptism. Now these Germans from Russia never had seen baptism, and they had different ideas about it. Some thought we would let the candidates down from the bridge into the water by a rope; others supposed that I would take water out of the river, and sprinkle it on their heads; and some thought I would baptize three times under. But they were all anxious to see the position of the godfather and godmother. I placed a little table on the river bank, near the bridge, and took for a text Matt. 10:32-38. The Lord blessed the sermon, so much that some gave up the sprinkling of their children, and took their stand for the truth right there. Some of them had designed to have children christened the next Sunday, but did not appear with them. Three dear souls were baptized, two of them between sixty and seventy years old, and one thirty-seven. There were more than four hundred people present. After the baptism, we celebrated the ordinances of feet-washing and the Lord's Supper. Some of the German leaders wanted to see us celebrate these ordinances, so they went with us, and there the Lord blessed again. They went home very much pleased, and said to their brethren, "This is the truth, and we have to follow this way just the same, if we want to be saved." HENRY BLOCK.